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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] weihongcsu:
Hi! Could you share what you did to slove the problem "tinboot.S:142: Error: attempt to move .org backwards".Thank you in advance.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] n2rjt:
Kernel plus initrd are too large if you get that message. First be sure your initrd is built with hardlinks to busybox. If that is still too large try fewer kernel features. For me, the standard kernel and bootenv fit. What sizes are the zImage and initrd.lzma files for you?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] PoXFreak:
Man I need to read up on all the new Linux stuff... I'm so far behind I'm getting lost.

Personally I want to pack initrd and everything else into a package along with a singular build (current 2.2 8/25/2011) and just make one install package for everything. That way I can pack the install, updates and kernel into one kaisimg.

Keep up the good work guys!!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] l1q1d:
The starting idea is wrong!

The multiple file: the nbh for kernel and initrd and the tgz file are setted up for large compatibility (multiple device use them). So creating a nbh only for kaiser is a bad idea.

Also you need to create a nbh for every single parameter in atools (like screen, keyboard, panel) it's crazy!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] n2rjt:
Atools to configure kernel: perhaps add option to download kernel to phone via adb or mounted usb or sd. Plus we should update the 2.6.32 kernel online to have the latest initrd.

I think xda-developers is best place to get links to androidinstall.tgz files for roms. We never know when a new person will put out a new rom.

Isnt there a wiki on ths site? Lets add a page listing and linking to the donut, eclair, froyo, and gingerbread roms that are available.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJBunch1228:
Anyone know if a mt4g batt will work in our phones?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trsanning:
I don't think so. If I remember correctly the dimensions are different.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tackleberry:
Won't even come close to fitting. I have both phones so yes I am certain.

From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJBunch1228:
Word, thanks guys
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] latinmaxima:
I am far from knowing how to get this going myself so I hope that one of the themers on here might oblige me by making this possibe. I like running stock for a bit since I am new to the Epic. But I would like the ability to have Reboot and Recovery from the Power Menu as well as the 1% battery option as well as No battery pop up from a stock deodexed template. I would still like all stock apps to remain in place as I remove those at my own leisure via root explorer or 7-zip prior to applying the zip. I am rooted and have no worries there but I have no idea how to get the .xml files edited or add any of these features. Especially on Froyo. Thanks in advance for the read and hopefully assistance! I am all for testing as well so...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] latinmaxima:
I am really surprised that no one else seems to want this. If someone is able to do it can you include the camera fix and call log fix unless those are kernel issues which a kernel is taking care of it already. Please someone help us out!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sryans2004:
I am looking into themeing for myself, but on the guide it says I need the stock deodexed template... How would I go about to getting that? Is their away I can get it from my phone? I am running truleyepic EB13 ROM. & it looks as if his theme is stock. Any help would be appreciated.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Here is one link to a rooted deodexed stock install and there are a few others in Android Developement. Then you can add battery mods to that.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853209
[Nexus S General] turbodroid:
I have a non-rooted stock NS on 2.3.3 and the phone was just sitting on my desk doing nothing when I felt it vibrate. I picked it up to check for a text or email, but the phone was instead rebooting.

Has this happened to anyone else on this build? I have had the phone reboot while in call before, but never just sitting there in standby.
[Nexus S General] csmall:
This happens to me in 2.3.2. I will have the phone just sitting there and it will randomly just be rebooting. Its not frequently enough to bother me yet but it happens on and off.
[Nexus S General] leyvatron:
same here on 2.3.2.... thats why I wanted 2.3.3. Ill wait patiently for the nightlies to include it.
[Nexus S General] rocketragz:
happened to me many many times on 2.3.2, but not 2.3.3. knock on wood
[Nexus S General] ancostel:
Happened to me...2 times already...never on 2.3.2...im rooted though
[Nexus S General] savante:
This happened to me like 2x a day with 2.3.2.

Hasnt happened once yet with 2.3.3.
[Nexus S General] zorak950:
I never got reboots in-call, though I did get them a couple times when I overloaded the phone's RAM.
[Nexus S General] incende:
Mine just rebooted in 2.3.3. I'm also getting "Can't connect to camera" anytime I use the Amazon barcode app which worked perfectly in 2.3.2.
[Nexus S General] CB620:
Haven't tried the new update yet
[Nexus S General] sirius b:
I never had the in call rebooting, just overloading reboots on my nexus s. I have yet to have one since the update, but it has only been a little over 24 hours. Then again this has been happening to me since updating my nexus one be it stock, rooted, or CM6 FRF91 and FRG83D or any form of gingerbread I've used on it. The only thing I can say it it started in froyo for me.
[Nexus S General] CB620:
on the new update havent had any issues.
[Nexus S General] MacGuy2006:
I had the random reboot in 2.3. 2 and thought the update had fixed it.

Unfortunately it did not - i noticed the phone rebooting yesterday.

The camera has crashed twice so far, requiring a battery pull.

I am stock, non-rooted.

I also get random failed downloads and failed market updates.

Starting to get frustrating.
[Nexus S General] deeren:
With all the problems you stated, it is obvious that ur rom is corrupt. I suggest you to back up all your settings, wipe everything and then reinstall a rom .
[Nexus S General] stonew5082:
He's not rooted dude. Btw I get a reboot on every call. On cm nightly, no matter what I try/flash
[Nexus S General] liquelt:
I just had reboot one time with 2.3.3 but I was running all processes 72 hours, without stopping and it suffered a lot !!!
[Nexus S General] MacGuy2006:
Nope.

It happens to 2 Nexus S, both stock, not even rooted. One barely has additional apps, too.

I think a lot of people don't notice the reboot, because it is silent, so if you are not looking at your phone exactly at the particular time it reboots, you wouldn't know it.

The inability to dial at times is much more annoying, IMO: you punch in a number, the phone tries to dial, then hangs up. At the same time, there are 3-4 signal bars. When it happens, it normally takes several tries to get it to work.

The crashing camera also doesn't happen every time, but it is definitely a new bug in 2.3.3.
[Nexus S General] hutzdani:
Just had my first random reboot on 2.3.3 while phone was sat on my keyboard while at my PC.

Rooted detoxed Rom stock
[Nexus S General] fchipm:
My 2.3.3 phone went into the weird "Dim Screen Reboot Screen" reboot at some point during the night last night. I was late for work because the alarm clock didn't go off (I know, I know...don't depend on a cell phone alarm clock)

I'm about done with this phone. And Android. Anyone wanna buy my NS? Dead serious.
[Nexus S General] [hfm]:
This dim reboot screen thing used to happen quite a bit on my g2 in its early days, got it launch day. OTA fixed it.
[Nexus S General] MacGuy2006:
I am still hopeful, but I am losing some patience with Android.

The platform seems to be all about selling the newest hardware, but the user experience is definitely below that of the iPhone. I keep hoping that the next Android OS upgrade will close the gap, but....

The iPhone 5 will have 4" screen, with Apple's better screen aspect ratio. If it only did Flash.... :)

Anyway, the Nexus S is really the best user experience Android has to offer, and it's overall fine. Except when it acts like WM6.
[Captivate General] LeighB:
I went from stock to Darky 8.0, and then 9.2. These are the only ROMS I have flashed and overall very happy with it.

However, I have always puzzled over the poor battery life relative to stock. I actually removed all of my own apps to track it down. Then about a week ago I turned off autosync for my gmail (but left on contacts/calendar syncing). Presto, battery life returned to what I consider normal (roughly like stock ROM). I get about 200 emails a day, but this was not a problem on the stock rom. The vast majority of them just pop in and out, since I am reading the majority of my mail on my laptop.

Posting here cause I am not allowed to post in the Darky forum cause I am a "newbie" ... maybe someone there will see this message.
[Captivate General] Miami_Son:
There are ROM-specific stickies in the Q&A subforum where you can post.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micro2112:
Could someone tell me why the galaxy phones are still not supported in CM? if we have roms and reoriented kernels, why is CM still unstable? or is there some big piece im missing?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Loggik:
CyanogenMod and custom ROMs are two different things. It is true that you can create custom ROMs based off of the CyanogenMod builds, but since we don't have those stable builds, the devs create ROMs based off of the i9000 etc. ROMs.

The CyanogenMod builds are built from scratch; that is why we don't currently have a stable CM build. Once a stable CM build is out, though, there'll be some awesome ROMs based off of it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goob1284:
Who creates these builds from scratch? Jesus talk about dedication
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micro2112:
OOOOOO that makes sense now. i didnt realize CM was like that, i just thought it was a rom that had been adapted for a wide range of phones(devices)

thanks.

I can hardly wait.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djvtek:
Hello Atrix users! Im not sure about your phone experience but coming from rooted lag fixed 2.2 Captivate (highest quadrant benchmark 2004) i have very positive thoughts about the Atrix. So far i only run into audio playback problem that appear to be the auto -kill check list and is easy fixed by unchecking certain apps and folders , check my findings searching my responses to posts if you having this issue. Till today i was nice and happy till i spotted dead pixel. Im sure wasnt there when picking up from store ( i have 20/10 vision yeah my eye doc is confused too). I wanna know if any of you noticed dead ones after few days of use . If you do im questioning the quality of this display because besides stating its first qHD we dont know jack a... about it.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsxrx7:
exchange it at a store

if they dont let you , best bet = take it to a store for a full refund

then buy it at another store
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djvtek:
I'll check this post for few days and see how it goes. Its not that big of a deal but just wanna see if any others having this issue. This way I could back this up talking to them in store.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fl13dl1c3:
I had a dead pixel on my Atrix as well. Took it to the corporate store from where I bought it and showed them. They gave me a new one without a problem.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djvtek:
Thanks, ill just do that tomorrow. I asked my girlfriend what would she do if happen to her iphone4 she said it wont happen coz its iphone..... just told her to shut up lol.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LGSilva:
Just exchanged mine today at radioshack due to a blue "zombie" pixel.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yokopol:
lol..same thing happened to me...had green one on the left lower side. exchanged for new one at the store without any problems
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostsoulktash:
No dead pixels so far *fingers crossed*
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djvtek:
Got my phone exchanged with no questions asked, very nice.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djvtek:
Ok this really weird day for me officially saying goodbye to atrix . I posted before about exchanging the dead pixel phone . Coming home I discovered the screen way off alignment to the left and actually twisted sideways . I got really upset and got back to store . They pulled 2 more for me , first one had the same problem off to the left and twisted second oh guess what dead pixel. I can't believe that posting about overall good first experience I found this phone to be such a poo build . I think Motorola totally paid individuals who made first reviews before ATT put them in stores. New dual core technology into something this cheesy its a shame . The guy serviced me today said I'm fourth person returning this phone due to problems with the display . I'm officially done with any Motorola product. Compared side by side with HTC inspire 4G didn't performed any better , even my girlfriend noticed that the HTC its much smother and actually faster opening applications not to mention build quality. So after all this drama I'm looking on big 4.3 screen and thinking I made damn good decision .
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BBalz:
Anyone know if there is a shortcut to taking screenshots?

Without having to root and use drocap or shootme. (that's assuming they even work when rooted, which there's been one or two saying it doesn't.)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slshults:
i'm rooted and neither dropcap or shootme work on my xoom.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenhunt:
Only one way to take screencaps...SDK, works both rooted and non but obviously takes a little knowledge/reading up on. But its not as hard as duplicating Grandma's gravy and biscuits so don't fear too much.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
Kinda sad it requires root or being plugged into a PC to take screen caps. Might be the wrong place to bring it up but I don't think I'm the only one thats kinda irked about this.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RadDudeTommy:
I know I payed 800 dollars for my Xoom. **** should be better. Media player, well Gallery in general, and this, and more. But I think I'm going to give google till after their first Honeycomb update.

Lets just see what they think is worth fixing first.

This is me assuming screenshots would be built into the os.

I don't think it has to do with the Xoom hardware.

But I could be wrong.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjpacheco:
So when has screen shots ever been built into the OS? Don't know what the big surprise is. Yes it would be nice, but eventually a root and simple software solution will present itself.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keitht:
Now that we have a tablet OS which should be moving us closer to netbook replacement, it would be a nice feature to have without the need to root and have an external application. I take screenshots on my Windows machine every single day. We need to stop having a phone OS mentality and starting thinking tablet OS which is different. So yes, that would be a nice feature to have built in to Honeycomb.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuzeAction:
Given the limited amount of hardware toggles on the Xoom, how would you suggest ScreenCapping be implemented? I'm not being condescending, I'm curious as to your thoughts.

ShootMe takes your cap by shaking your device. This seems logical because it wouldn't regurie anything as far as a UI.

If we ever receive extension support for the browser it seems adding a button to the toolbar would work, however that would limit caps to the browser only.

Anyone else have any ideas?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keitht:
I am not a UI designer but there are probably many ways to do this. Long press screen, Print Screen in keyboard, add another system button to the taskbar on bottom, etc. In Windows, you just press the print screen button to copy to the clipboard. It can't be that difficult to implement something similar in Honeycomb. Once in the clipboard, you paste it to whatever application has focus. UI designers for Honeycomb can certainly figure out something this simple.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HalfMoon:
Samsung added it in the Galaxy Tab (which surprised me when I found out). On the Galaxy tab if you hold the back button and press the power button you get a screenshot, no root needed.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjpacheco:
Correct, it was a Samsung add-on, not in the base OS.

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be a great thing for google to just throw in there and obviously it is very doable, and I do not know why it is not just part of the OS already.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenhunt:
Google has added it native in 2.3.3 so it wouldn't surprise me if it comes in a honeycomb update.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt (That means this post never happened right?)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slshults:
The inability to take screenshots without root or the sdk is a known issue to Android users.

The ability was added in Gingerbread. (I'm not allowed to post links yet but go to phandroid.com and search for a post by Kevin Krause	on March 1st, 2011 at 7:35 am for details.) Samsung is the only dev to make use of the option so far (afaik) and only on gingerbread devices.

If you want an app that takes screenshots without root or the SDK, the option is there for you to develop such an app if you don't want to wait for someone else to do it.

Oh, and be sure to post a link to your apk for us when you're done. Thanks.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] td1320:
The Galaxy Tab has screen capture right out the box. Hold the back button and press the power button and it takes a screen capture and even puts it in the folder named screen capture. Just sayin.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] parityodd:
That is one thing Apple did get right on the iPhone and iPad: press and hold the "Home" button at center bottom, then press and release the "power" button on top.

This made it really easy to create documentation at work... Android could have used a combination of one of the volume buttons and the power button. which would come in handy when either creating documentation on how to do something or for instructing users to send a screen shot of an error they are seeing...

my $0.02
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nforsans:
Asus eee pad TF has had the screenshot function enabled out of the box. Is that an Asus add-on? I thought it was part of HC...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arun01:
I use screenshot er & it places an icon at the bottom of the screen.Simply tap & voila!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nforsans:
Are you rooted Arun?

And why isn't it available on the XOOM like on the asus TF?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nawedakhter:
Solved

I did it by holding the power button and then pressing the home button [HTC Explorer]
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roman87626:
Xoom Wifi ICS

Screenshot / Power and Vol Down
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] fRenZy-_-:
do we get charged foe using the satellite gps on the phone? i uninstalled the at&t navigator.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] droidbird:
Pretty impressive post.

I think this is what you are asking along with the answers:

GPS: no

Data: depends on your data plan and if you have hit your plan limits.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] thehacker010:
You can use Google's Navigation for free as much as you want.

*NOTE*

GPS still uses a data plan to download the maps, so make sure you don't use all of your data if you don' have unlimited.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] gasibigo:
Install offline navigation softwares like Ndrive or IGO
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] cegna09:
just to clarify, the GPS radio itself wont' use data, but the apps will as they update their maps and as for routes.

dont' use the AT&T BS, use google maps or mapquest if you don't care about data use since both are free.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] fRenZy-_-:
what about if im using wifi rather then the data plan? i have it toggled off on my phone
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] davewuvswaffles:
And you're going to have Wifi in your car how?

Even if you did, (I do know a few cars have wifi hotspots as features), they all come with GPS navigation standard in those packages AFAIK.
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
I been performing this myself with great success, but you need ROOT access AND busybox installed. Create a folder on your phone's SD card called tmp. You'll need adb in order to adb shell, and gain root access. (in cmd, adb shell <enter> su <enter> confirm you are on a # prompt not the $ prompt)

Now copy and paste each line, press enter after each line pasted. Confirm the files copied after each line by running ls /mnt/sdcard/tmp/mmssms.db

cp /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.contacts/contacts2.db /mnt/sdcard/tmp/contacts2.db
cp /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.telephony/mmssms.db /mnt/sdcard/tmp/mmssms.db
cp /dbdata/databases/com.sec.android.provider.logsprovider/logs.db /mnt/sdcard/tmp/logs.db
cp /dbdata/databases/com.sec.android.app.memo/Memo.db /mnt/sdcard/tmp/Memo.db
cp /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db /mnt/sdcard/tmp/calendar.db

Once that is done, mount the phone to your computer and copy the TMP folder to your computer. When you flash the custom rom, you'll have to keep the SIM card out of the phone because you do not want new history items written to the log files.

Next ls -l /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.contacts/contacts2.db (and the others) to see what permissions/owner they have, if you simply cp the files from /mnt/sdcard/tmp to their locations, you'll get force closes in the application (because it's not able to write log data).

Make note is the owner for each db file. Then back to adb shell, su, cd /mnt/sdcard/tmp (trust everyone knows to copy the tmp folder from PC onto your phone) cp contacts2.db /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.contacts/contacts2.db (and the others!).

Once the files are copied back to their locations on the device, run the following:

chmod 660 /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.contacts/contacts2.db
chown app_15.app_15 /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.contacts/contacts2.db

Obviously you want to use the app_X.app_X you saw from running ls -l /path/filename before copying the backed up log file.

Original thread is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=969343
[Captivate General] hauj0bb:
SMS Backup and Restore is a great app that does exactly what it's title indicates, without root.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

Call logs backup and restore also does exactly what it's title indicates, without root.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.riteshsahu.CallLogBackupRestore

Both free and developed by the same guy, I've used both many times without a hitch.

I sync my contacts with gmail, so no problem there.
[Captivate General] loonieryan:
+1

The manual method is pointless and extra work for nothing. These apps work flawlessly. I've used them many times as well.
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
I know there are apps which backup the same settings, my whole point for posting is I do not backup contacts with Google. So I kept trying different things until putting this together and I know it's a pain but all that really is done is copying and pasting lines into an SU adb shell.
[Captivate General] eyenstien:
You do not use google account or you just don't use it for backing up contacts... :eek:
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
I use a Google account but not to sync or backup contacts.
[Captivate General] bravomail:
Thanks for good info!

Thanks for good info!

I personally don't care about my SMS history. Other people text a lot.

Another alternative is to use Google backup/synchronization. I never tried it. Anyone?